2020 Honda Fit vs 2019 Honda Fit

The 2020 Honda Fit might as well be one of those enchanting comic vehicles, what with its professedly incredible strength to endure way more stuff than its little size suggests. Honda‘s subcompact hatchback also has more passenger space than most people would think imaginable, and its multi-way folding back seat is the solution to its remarkable versatility. While this generation of Fit needs the fun-to-drive character of its ancestors, it still has a very fuel-efficient engine and quiet drive quality. Of course, the hatch’s buzzy engine and some unspectacular interior elements bely its value pricing. However, the 2020 Fit is among the most effective and handy little vehicles on the market.

The 2019 Honda’s Fit is aptly titled: You can fit much more stuff inside it than in any other subcompact gratitude to its boxy appearance and multi-way folding rear seats. It also is a great cost, with class-competitive refinement and builds quality and a low base cost. Driver-assistance innovations such as adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assist, and the automated emergency braking are voluntary or standard stuff on every trim level, additional distancing the Fit from its natural rivals.

What the Fit doesn’t fit into its mix of skills is fun. Although you can take it with a manual gearbox, it is at best enjoyable to drive—which is a bit of a letdown regarding that the previous-generation model was more appealing while being fairly efficient. But if majestic interior space and versatility in a small package are what you seek, the Fit is yet a vehicle we highly endorse.

For 2020, Honda doesn’t offer any meaningful changes to the Fit lineup.

Most Fit customers are seeing for an affordable way to reach from point A to point B, but they also require more useful characteristics than the base Fit proposals. This combines a 7.0-inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto capability as well as showier exterior addenda. In this light, we’d suggest stepping up to the still-affordable Sport trim level.

Manual Transmission

While a manual transmission is standard—and we’re huge supporters of the appended engagement—we consider the voluntary continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT) is deserving the additional money because it gets even better fuel-economy grades. Moreover, preferring the CVT unfastens the Honda Sensing bundle that combines adaptive cruise control, automated emergency braking, and lane-keeping assist.

For 2019 Not a lot. Models outfitted with the Honda Sensing series of driver-assistance hallmarks will find automatic high-beam headlamps that have been attached to the program and a fresh color—Platinum Pearl—succeeds White Orchid Pearl—on the choices sheet.

Driver-Assistance

Honda’s Fit is essential to transport, clear and simple, so we see no basis to opt for anything past the lower trim levels. Additionally, the highly sought-after driver-assistance highlights are voluntary on every model—although, on each variant save for the EX, they’re joined with a continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT). We’d leap the decorative safety gear and grab the Fit Sport. One pulled up the Fit ladder from the base LX, it combines a 7.0-inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, 16-inch aluminum wheels, a desirable body kit, and a leather-wrapped steering wheel and shift knob.

An economics vehicle engine produces sufficient zip for city driving in the 2020 Honda Fit, but it won’t be winning any drag races.

A 1.5-liter inline-4 with front-wheel drive is standard in the Fit, producing 130 horsepower and 114 pound-feet of torque. That’s ample for a 0-60 mph time of about 10 seconds, which isn’t especially fast by most metrics, but the Fit doesn’t want for energy around town. A 6-speed manual transmission appears standard, but a CVT is available on every model and standard on the EX-L trim. With its sport mode and paddle “shifters,” it’s bigger than other belt-driven transmissions, and gas mileage with the CVT is significantly better.

Handling

Handling is excellent and sensitive gratitude to a tiny wheelbase and tossable dimensions, and the suspension manages road faults well for such a little vehicle, but earlier variants of the Fit were much more fun to ride.

The only powertrain choice that Fit customers must get is the option between the six-speed manual transmission and the CVT, although horsepower falls to 128 for CVT-equipped models. At the higher engine speeds where you’ll pay lots of driving time, the engine is buzzy. The manual transmission provides greater control for preparing the most power out of the engine; the CVT drains life from the engine and isn’t as pleasant to ride. Only the Fit’s drive quality stands out as a highlight.

Flexible

The vehicle is almost flexible when riding above most road faults, especially when provided with the larger wheels of the base LX emphasis. What goes up must arrive down—or, rather, what drives well doesn’t always manage well, and the Fit’s soft suspension leaves it dynamically unexceptional. There is still enough body roll in turns, and the steering gives zero roads feel—nor is it as accurate as it was in the Fit’s ancestor. Call it acceptable, not fun.

In actual economy vehicle style, the 2020 Honda Fit takes exceptional fuel mileage gratitude to a frugal powertrain and low weight. Base manual models get 29 mpg city, 36 highway, 31 combined, but the voluntary CVT increases to 33/40/36 mpg. EX and EX-L models with the CVT fell somewhat to 31/36/33 mpg. All models can operate on conventional fuel.

The LX model with the CVT maintains an outstanding 40-mpg highway degree from the EPA; all other Fits score a 36-mpg highway rating. Only Fits with the manual transmission break to breach the 30-mpg point in the city from the EPA. We examined a manual-equipped Fit, which the EPA measures as the least effective, yet we although recorded an awesome 41 mpg in our 200-mile highway fuel-economy test.

This little vehicle seats up to five people on standard cloth upholstery. Upgrades combine leather seats, heated front seats, and a leather-wrapped steering wheel. With enough head- and legroom, the Fit is hosting even for bigger drivers. As with many subcompact cars, though, two adults will prove better than three. The tilt-and-telescopic steering wheel performs it simply to get a suitable driving position. Although there are some strong substitutes here and there, Fit’s cabin is composed mostly of premium elements and soft-touch surfaces.

Cargo

The Fit’s 16.6 cubic feet of cargo space is more than what you’ll notice with many little sedans, such as the Kia Rio, but it’s less than you’ll find behind the rear seats in other five-door hatchbacks, like the Chevrolet Sonic. The Honda has the highest cargo volume of 52.7 cubic feet with the rear seats collapsed. The Fit arrives standard with Honda’s Magic Seat. The rear seat pads can collapse up to bring taller things, and the front passenger seat can be collapsed flat to suit more extensive objects or even give space for a temporary bed.

Spotless styled and well constructed from quality stuff, the Fit’s interior reflects between the largest in the section. Factor in its spaciousness and the Fit’s interior is a comfortable position to be. In most dimensions, the Fit’s cabin is the biggest in the subcompact class. Its rear-seat area, in special, is astonishingly large and has significantly more legroom than any primary rival; it almost resembles that of some full-size sedans.

There are few things brief of important tools that you can’t fit inside of a Fit. The model has developed its character on the back of its rear Magic Seat. That division bench can wrap flat—creating a continuous surface from the rear bumper to just behind the front seats—or can flip its bottom cushion up and into a vertical stand, providing great, broad things to be placed through the side doors and set across the rear footwells. The result is unmatched configurability that is supported by the boxy Fit’s large interior and cargo capacities. With the rear seats collapsed, we fit 20 carry-on suitcases inside the Fit’s cabin.

Standard stuff in this Honda adds a 5-inch infotainment screen, a USB port, Bluetooth, and a four-speaker stereo. Available highlights add a 7-inch touch screen, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, a navigation system, a six-speaker stereo, HD Radio, satellite radio, and HondaLink, which provides you remote entrance to your Fit and lets you utilize some highlights from your smartphone on the touch screen. Although it’s not the most honest infotainment system on the market, Fit’s setup is comparatively simple to use, gratitude to well-placed solid controls and available smartphone integration.

Every Fit comes standard with Bluetooth audio and phone connectivity, a backup camera, at least one USB port, and redundant steering-wheel audio controls. The 7.0-inch touchscreen found on every Fit but the base LX trim, adds Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and two additional speakers for the sound system (for a total of six). In a sign of our smartphone times, Honda removed the Fit’s auxiliary audio input, going solely USB.

The 2020 Fit acquired a five-star crash-test rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), but it wasn’t labeled a Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The subcompact Honda also gives a group of voluntary driver-assistance technology. Essential safety innovations combine:

1. Available automated emergency braking

 2. Available lane-departure warning

 3. Available adaptive cruise control

Excellent scores from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety—as well as its available (and rare for this class) driver-assistance highlights including automated emergency braking, lane-departure warning, adaptive cruise control, and forward-collision warning—are major positives. Essential safety innovations combine:

1. Available automated emergency braking

2. Available lane-departure warning

3. Available adaptive cruise control